@j0hnlind: You are right - what I meant is that the works that are there are complete, not excerpts or chopped up as on some other 99 cent or $1.99 classical compilations sold on Amazon. (But those are usually pretty good in their own way.)

@nadh: Any MP3s like this you buy on Amazon go into your Amazon Cloud instantly. Go to your Amazon Cloud Player from the main www.amazon.com screen, find the album, select the tracks you want or select all by clicking the checkbox above all tracks and click the Download button. If you have the Amazon Downloader installed, the MP3s will be downloaded and integrated into iTunes. If you don't have the Downloader already, you'll be prompted to install it. Do that, then it will download the MP3s to your iTunes. You won't have to download the Downloader program again.

In other words, it's easy, after the first time you do it.

There's no fee for the Cloud Player and storage for anything you buy from Amazon. You can upload up to 250 MP3s of your own there for free. If you want more than 250 tracks that you upload, there is a monthly fee. Still, any MP3s you buy from Amazon are always stored there free forever (so far).

Looks to be another stellar bargain from the folks down at the Bach Guild, following up on similar $0.99 compilations from Beethoven, Bach, Mahler, Tchaikovsky (sic perhaps, too lazy to confirm), and Brahms.

There are some first-rate names in this collection: Peter Serkin, Alfred Brendel, I Solisti di Zagreb, Josef Suk, Paula Robison, and the English Chamber Orchesta. These are all artists who are heard frequently on classical music stations. So one would expect that these performances are pretty good.

I also note that there is not much duplication between this collection and "The 99 Most Essential Mozart Masterpieces" which was offered previously by Amazon.

I have always wondered why Amazon sometimes encodes different movements of the same piece at different bitrates. I could understand if one given piece (e.g. a certain symphony) was encoded at one time at one bitrate, and another piece (e.g. a certain sonata) was encoded at a different time at a different bitrate. But Amazon often uses different bitrates for different movements within the same work! Why would they do that? But for 99 cents, I can live with it.

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